Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: File naming conventions

[Dustin Sallings]

On Oct 18, 2004, at 17:26, Miles Bader wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 05:01:39PM -0700, Dustin Sallings wrote:
> >         desktop:~/prog/p4gw/cms 3011> ctags `tla inventory -s`
> >         /usr/local/bin/ctags: Argument list too long.
> >
> >         I suppose since this version of ctags has an option to avoid
> > clobbering the tags file on a second invocation, I can use
> > xargs...unless there's whitespace or something in a filename 
> > somewhere.
>
> Slightly off-topic, but xargs doesn't have any problem with typical
> whitespace in file names; the main issue is _newlines_ in filenames.

dustin2wti:/tmp/x 613% ll
total 16
-rw-------  1 dustin  wheel  18 18 Oct 17:36 file one
-rw-------  1 dustin  wheel  18 18 Oct 17:36 filetwo
0.000u 0.000s 0:00.04 0.0%      0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w
dustin2wti:/tmp/x 614% cat *
Hi, I'm file one!
Hi, I'm file two!
0.010u 0.010s 0:00.06 33.3%     0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w
dustin2wti:/tmp/x 615% find file* | xargs cat
cat: file: No such file or directory
cat: one: No such file or directory
Hi, I'm file two!
0.000u 0.020s 0:00.08 25.0%     0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w
dustin2wti:/tmp/x 616% find file* -print0 | xargs -0 cat
Hi, I'm file one!
Hi, I'm file two!
0.030u 0.000s 0:00.07 42.8%     0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w

        My xargs disagrees with you.

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Dustin Sallings